Nuñez, Nomelí P.



Nuñez, Nomelí P.
  • Assistant Professor
  • Ph.D. in Pharmacology/Toxicology, 1999, Washington State University
  • NTR
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  • Office: PAI 5.14A
  • Office Number: 512-471-3243, 512-471-3638, 512-471-2800
  • Lab: PAI 5.14
  • Fax: 512-471-5844
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Areas of Major Interest

The alcohol consumption-body fat-breast cancer interaction, as well as wound healing and breast cancer, continue to be major areas of interest to Dr. Nuñez. His laboratory's objective is to use these two interests as tools to better understand how we can treat and prevent breast cancer.

Education and Previous Positions

Dr. Nuñez earned a BA in biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a Master Degree in Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins University, with a focus in health policy and management. As part of his MPH, Dr. Nuñez collaborated with the Office of Minority Health and co-authored a Chartbook on Latino children and health care access. He holds a doctoral degree in Pharmacology & Toxicology from Washington State University.


His doctorate work focused on alcohol, cancer progression and body wasting. He completed postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). His work at the NIDDK focused on studying the role the Insulin-like Growth Factor I Receptor (IGF-1R) in cell-cell adhesion and motility. Most recently, he completed postdoctoral training as a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Rockville, Maryland. His work at the NCI focused on topics such as the 1) prevention of obesity and breast cancer; 2) obesity, wound healing and angiogenesis; 3) obesity, Insulin-like Growth Factor-1, and breast cancer and 4) the effects of tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors on bone metabolism. Dr. Nuñez' laboratory at UT will focus on examining the effects of obesity on wound healing as well as the effects of alcohol consumption on breast cancer, with the goal of better understanding how obesity and alcohol consumption predispose a woman to breast cancer.



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